What Is Suffering?
Suffering is the result of desire.
Chip Van Hassel
The worst form of suffering is desiring some undefined change which you do not comprehend how to promulgate.
Category: Zen Buddhism
Lonesome Glory
Setting Your Horse Up fore Every Next-Jump
Feet Out In Front of You;
Blythe Miller
Heels: OUT and DOWN!!!
Some Zen
How free a fly is!
How solid the rock is. How fluid the mind…
How wordless the water!
At Peace
“When profound, open clarity has no change and is consistent at all times, only then can you be at peace.”
Translated by: Thomas Cleary
Master Mind
Practice Silence; interrupt with neither word or expression.
Zen Saying
Being is Perceiving.
Constantly be an appreciator of life by feeling the all of your being.
Without “being,” we perceive not.
Legend of Clermont College
“…have no relation to Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master- degrees, which were constructed for the general class of Masons. …”
Legend of Clermont College
The Color, Clear
“Water is clear as the mind.”
Dakkuan
Exist As Shit
“If you have shitty thoughts,
Dakkuan
You exist in shit.
If you see shit and say,
“I am one with that shit!”
Than,
You’ve got it!”
Master Mind
Practice Silence; interrupt with neither word or expression.
Zen Saying
Color of Your Aura
The color of your Aura comes from your physical tension.
Dakkuan
Neuro-Muscle Memory
Mental processes induce physical processes.
Example:
Being annoyed tenses muscles.
Allowing yourself to stew in annoyance creates muscle memory which becomes physically stressful.
The Pairs
“If with a pure
mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows
him like his never-departing shadow.”
“Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their
The Dhammapada (page23)
chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of
the ox.”
-Sit Quiet.
The ominous power of quietude.
Dakkuan
The Bible: “They Made it all up!” Alan Watts
“Christianity institutionalized guilt as a virtue.” – Alan Watts
Everybody NEEDS One!
“Ain’t no punch in the face like a Good punch in the face!”
Chip Van Hassel
The Perfect Ride by Gary Stevens
Woman Ears
He asked me, “If you were walking in the forest with a woman and a tree fell, would she hear it?”
Selective Hearing
I said, “Probably not, because she wasn’t listening.”
Spontaneous
Shaking branch waves goodbye to fleeting bird.
Neutral Mind
The beauty of not knowing neutralizes any commentary the ego might have.
Chip Van Hassel
The Book of Change
Zen Story
A monk was being chased by a ferocious tiger through the forest. When be came to the edge of a cliff,
Continue reading “Zen Story”Lao Tzu
“When a way comes to an end,
change.
Having changed, you pass through.”
The I Ching
